Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,127, Richard Drake, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Drake Richard
S. 29,127
CONTENTS

DRAKE, RICHARD (N.Y.) 5-29127

Via 2 Feb 1836.
Letter to 3 rd Audit on 19. Oct 1846.
9240 William Crane of Salisbury in the State of New York, as a private in the Company comman- ded by Captain Moffett of the reg t comman- ded by Colonel Myers 8 months private at No. 30406. 8 months service
Enrolled on the Roll of Miss. York at the rate of 20 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Feb y 1836 and sent to Miss. William Crum
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 $133.33 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept r 13.33 $146.66
16228
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by David Doyl Clerk, Book 82 Vol. 4 Page 17

16228
Richard Drake
March 14. 1833
Ch. 5. 11. 12. 16
P. 298
How
J. C. Boorhead
Me
1. How old is he? 2. Where does he live? 3. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? 4. Where was the declaration made? 5. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? 6. Where was the declaration made? 7. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? 8. Where was the declaration made? 9. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? 10. Where was the declaration made?
DRAKE, RICHARD (N.Y.) 5-29127

BRIEF in the case of  Richard Drake of Ulster County  of Sullivan  in the State of  New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years. Months. Days.     Enlisted, June 1775 Ulster 4 Private Gen. Thomas M'Gott , N. York  troups   reenlisted March 1776 1 at least " William Albertson   Enlisted June 1776 5 10 Col. Haunderbrugh   reenlisted April 1777 about 4 10 Capt. John Billingsley   discharged June 1777 2 1/2 Capt. Mott   reenlisted April 1777 about 21 Col. Hasbrouck , Capt. Sam Clark   discharged Nov 1777 about 1 not named   reenlisted 1 st April 1778 about 14 Capt. Seipening   1 st June 1778 1 15 Col. Hasbrouck , Capt. Johnson   Oct 1778 about 15 Capt. Dickson   Mar 1780 3 Artificer " Isaac Reeder   Mar 1779 not used  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? 3  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? 
Blooming Grove, Newburgh
 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living witnesses as to 5 months & 60 days & by traditional evidence 
 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not formally attached 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. B. Wilson Examining Clerk. 9. March 1833
5 1 1 1 8

State of New York County of Steuben } ss.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Thomas Drake being duly sworn according to law, State that I am one of the children of Richard Drake  late late of the County of Sullivan and State of New York do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint JOSEPH ELLIS , of Bloomingburgh, Sullivan County, and State of New York, _____ my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my behalf, to prosecute my claims for a portion interest of the pension that was due my father Richard Drake  deceased under the Act of June 7 th 1832 _____ and to receive such Certificate as may be issued; hereby revoking any power of Attorney which may have been heretofore given, and confirming all things that my Attorney, Joseph Ellis , may lawfully do in the premises; and that I authorise my said Attorney to employ one or more attorneys under him to act for me in my behalf, as my Attorney, the said Joseph Ellis , may deem proper.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five William Diven Witness _____ Thomas Drake
State of New York County of Steuben ss.
Be it Known, that personally appeared before me Thomas Drake to me known, and acknowledged that he executed the above Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.
William Diven Justice of the peace
State of New-York, — Steuben County Clerk's Office, ss :
I, CHARLES W. CAMPBELL , Clerk of the said County, and Clerk of the Court of Record in and for said County, do hereby certify that William Diven Esquire, before whom the annexed instrument in writ- ing was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same, and that I am well ac- quainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said Certificate, is genuine, and that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, and of said Courts, at Bath, this 21 day of June A. D. 185 4
C. W. Campbell Clerk.

State of New York County of Steuben } ss.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Thomas Drake being duly sworn according to law, state that I am one of the children of Richard Drake  deceased late of the County of Sullivan and State of New York do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint JOSEPH ELLIS , of Bloomingburgh , Sullivan County , and State of New York , my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my behalf, to prosecute my claims for a full increase of the pension that was due my father Richard Drake deceased under the Act of June 7 th 1832 and to receive such Certificate as may be issued; hereby revoking any power of Attorney which may have been heretofore given, and confirming all things that my Attorney, Joseph Ellis , may lawfully do in the premises; and that I authorise my said Attorney to employ one or more attorneys under him to act for me in my behalf, as my Attorney, the said Joseph Ellis , may deem proper.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five
William Dusen Witness
Thomas Drake
State of New York County of Steuben ss.
Be it Known, that personally appeared before me Thomas Drake to me known, and acknowledged that he executed the above Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.
William Dusen Justice of the peace
I do hereby authorise and empower Thomas Simpkins to prosecute the above claim for an increase of pension and to examine the papers now on file which contains Richard Drake's application for his pension Joseph Ellis the attorney above named

State of New York
Sullivan County
On this 9 th day of October in the year 1832 personally appeared Levi  Levi  Richard  Richard Drake in open Court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Sullivan in said State, now sitting. Richard Drake a resident of Mamakating in said County and State of New York, aged seventy three years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. That is to say he enlisted out of a Company of Common Militia into a company of minute men commanded by Capt. Thomas Moffit. Lieutenants Seth Worrall, Second Lieut. James Little, & Nathan Strong ensign, at the town of Blooming Grove in Orange County & State of New York, in the month of September A.D. 1775 to serve four months and continued to serve as such soldier for & during said four months and during said service marched into the town of New Windsor now in said County but then a part of Ulster County, to the Bank of the North River about four miles above above West Point where he continued until he was discharged but had no written discharge. That afterwards in the month of March A.D. 1776 at Newburgh in said County of Orange (then Ulster County) he volunteered into a Company commanded by William Alanson to serve as a guard to take & conduct by water upon the North River from Newburgh to Albany two sloops or Schooner loads of Cannon & carriages for the use of the United States Army at the North and served in that character accordingly & went during that service to Albany & at Albany received on board a number of Prisoners of War & took some down the river to Dobbs Ferry below Peekskill & from thence went with said Prisoners to Hackensack in New Jersey and that he served as a guard to said Prisoners from Albany to Hackensack under said Alanson & served under said Alanson as above said for the space of one month at least according to the best of his recollection & belief.

That afterwards at Newburgh in said County of Orange (then Ulster County) in the month of June AD 1776 he enlisted into a company com- manded by John Gillespie as Captain, Jacob Lawrence first Lieut. one Dubois (whose Christian name is not recalled) as second Lieutenant William Hall first Sergeant & James Stitt & Jacob Roosa second & third Sergeants - there being no officers - in a regiment commanded by Colonel Hardenburgh (his Christian name not recalled) to serve five months & ten days commonly called five months men - and that he served as such soldier during said term of five months & ten days and that during said term he marched to Newburgh and thence to Long Island at Brook- lyn about the last of August and continued there about two or three days and retreated with the army to Newburgh in the night time & was during this time in a Brigade com- manded by Genl. Scott & Nicholas Fish Brigade Major. There were other regiments in said Brigade commanded by Col. Labaree, Col. Malcolm, & Col. Dubois. That he knew M c Dougal Col or Genl. M c Dougal one major Billings & a Capt. Denton serving there at same time. That he remained in Newburgh until the same was taken or entered by the British on one Sunday and then marched out of the City & was joined upon by the enemy while so marching near the head of the Rarity. And went to Kingsbridge and there remained a while and marched thence to White Plains & was there during the battle had with a portion of the troops. From thence he marched to Peekskill and to Dobbs Ferry where he was discharged & went from thence home by a sloop in company with Captain Gillespie. That afterwards in the month of April AD 1777 that as a volunteer or by the order of his officers of the militia he entered the service of his country as a militia soldier in a Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Clarke & M c Dougal Matt Waggon & marched to at Newburgh aforesaid and marched to Fort Constitution on the East side of the North River opposite West Point and continued in said service about ten days - That afterwards in the summer of 1777 he with others of the militia was called

(As it was called) to serve in the Revolutionary war and during the months of June & July of that year he served at Fort Montgomery on the North River as long as one month & a half in a Company of militia commanded by Capt. Samuel Clark in Col. Hasbroucks Regiment of militia That in September of the same year he went as a volunteer in a company to guard a small craft up the North river loaded with hard bread for the use of the army, to Albany and served therein about three weeks That in or about the first of November of the year 1777 he was drafted to serve at New- Windson as a guard at the place where was a Chevaux de frise & served there under Captain Torpney for the space of about one month - That afterwards in the last of March or first of April 1778 he went & served by virtue of the orders of his superior officers, at West Point about two weeks to guard said place. Govern- ment then having for the first begun to fortify the same. That in or about the last of May or first of June of the same year 1778 he went as one of the Clapred militia in a company under Captain John- son of Col Hasbroucks regiment to West- Point & from there marched to Mamanating- tine which was then considered the front- ier and served as long as one month at least, and again in or about the month of October of 1778 was again ordered out & marched from Newburgh to Mamanating & thence to Poughkeepsie (where the Indians had made an attack on the citizens) and was absent from home in said last service one half month according to the best of his recollection - That in May 1780 he was again ordered out & went as a soldier of the militia from Newburgh to Nippen- baugh (a place so called) in Warwasing in Ulster County across Shawangunk mountain and was in said last service under Captain Johnson about half of a month That he never received any discharge in writing - That he was born in the town of Goshen in Orange County in June 1759, that

he has a record or memorandum of his age in a family bible at home - That since the revolutionary war he lived first at Blooming Grove in Orange County next in the town of Middletown in Sullivan County - next at Middletown in Orange County & next in said Middletown where he now lives - At some times he was drafted and at other times he volunteered to serve as above stated That he recollects that William Hall his first sergeant above named, died with sickness, at the city of New York, during deponents service as aforesaid at New York City & its vicinity - And further that about the first day of May in the year 1779 under an enlistment under the command of Captain Jacob Reeder who commanded a company of artificers serving for the American army he commenced service as an artificer & continued to serve accordingly under said enlistment for three months in a blacksmiths shop containing five fires at Newburgh in the state of New York and from there he continued in said service until about the first of March 1780. That he drew clothing during his service and that said clothing was paid for by the government. That his service consisted prin- cipally in shoeing horses for the American Army - That he has no documentary evidence & that he knows of no person (except one Thomas Oliver) who can testify to his services, whose testi- mony he can procure - That he was born in the year 1759 at Goshen in Orange County in state of New York and has a memorandum  of his age and that William Lockwood & Mahan W. Horton of the town of his resi- dence & many others are acquainted with him & can testify to his character & reputa- tion and their belief of his service - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the interest & dividends that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state - Richard F. at sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid - B. Penn Mr. J. M. Foster Elk

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.
January 8, 1924.
Mrs. S. B. Pond, Patton, Calif.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 29127 , it appears that Richard Drake was born at Goshen, Orange County, New York in June 1759.
He enlisted at Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York, and served in the New York troops as follows-
From September 1775, four months in Captain Thomas Moffet's Company.
From March 1776, one month in Captain William Alber- son's Company, and from June 1776, five months and ten days in Captain John Gillespie's Company, Colonel Hardenburgh's Regiment.
In April 1777, ten days in Captain Samuel Clark's Com- pany and in June and July 1777, one and one half months in Captain Samuel Clark's Company, Colonel Hasbrook's Regiment.
In September 1777, three weeks, guarding a small craft

on North River, and from November 1, 1777, one month in Captain Terpney's Company.
In March or April 1778, two weeks as a guard at West Point, and from June 1, 1778, one month in Captain Johnson's Company, Colonel Hasbrook's Regiment.
In October 1778, two weeks against the Indians, from May 1, 1779 to March 1, 1780 in Captain Jacob Reeder's Company, as an artificer, and in May 1780, two weeks in Captain Johnson's Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 9, 1832, while a resident of Mamakating, Sullivan County, New York. He died February 2, 1836.
In 1854, Thomas Drake of Steuben County, New York, stated that he was one of the children of Richard Drake, no other names mentioned.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

29 127 Rev INVALID.
1910 June 2 Hon. S. A. Rodenberg House of Rep. for Indpls Arthur C. Pate, V.P. M. 924 - Jan. 8 - Hist to Mrs. S. B. Pate
File No. 29,127
Richard Drake
His Rev. Wm.
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index: - Vol. 2 , Page 114
[Arrangement of 1870.]

New York Rev o
Rich d Brake Suspended
let. A. Ranick 2 Dec. 1833
let to Sum d July 19 th 34 let to J. W. Brown 28 Jan y 35 to Hon. J. W. Brown 4 Jan y 1836
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Act. of June '32

Dec 29
Ny.
J. S. Edwards Esq. Pension Office Washington
J. Brown TAP
Miss Bratton

as it may be entitled to acquire Mr of Your judgment upon the same as soon as Your convenience will admit.
Will You also do me the favor to return Mr Demmings letter.
I am Very respectfully Yours &c &c
John M Brown of New York
J L Edwards Esq

Bloomington Ill Feb 3 rd 1844 Feb 10
TP 4
My
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Richard Brake

Bloomingburgh Sullivan County
N. York Jan'y. 30 th 1836
Hon. J. L. Edmonds
Dr Sir
I rec d a few days since yours of the 4 th Inst, addressed to Hon. J. W. Brown member of Congress from this State, in which after stating the terms of service of Richard Drake which were rejected or suspended, you add. "There seems to be no objection to allowing Mr Drake for five months service in 1776; for one month in 1777, in Colonel Hasbroucks regiment; for one month in 1778; and for fifteen days in 1779; and fifteen days in 1780; in all, eight months, upon the proof now presented." -
I am authorized to say in reply, that inasmuch as Mr Drake is very feeble & probably will not survive long and is unable therefore to do any thing personally to procure his proof further, you are authorized & requested to remit to me a certificate according to the above allowance & consider his case disposed of accordingly.
With much respect
I remain yours &c
A. Dimmick
Hon. J. L. Edmonds Chair of Pensions -

Bloomingburgh N.Y. Dec. 22
Free
Hon. John W. Brown Member of Congress Washington City D.C. -

Blethenburgh Decemr 21 st 1835
In Sir
I take the liberty of asking the favor of your attention to a little Pension business, which has been long hanging - Richard Drake of this town & formerly of Orange made his application for a pension some three years since & his papers have been long on file in the Pension Office under a suspension of proceeding for want of further proof. As what I wish is to be informed more definitely from the pension office, what are the views they entertain of his case. By his original papers he claims for service at two different times making 19 1/2 months - by a supplemental afft his claim was for 7 months more of service as an ar- tificer - making 10 months as an artificer including 3 months of such service embraced in his original application - Mr Edmonds by his letter long since to me on the subject says "In this case the applicant claims to have served three months as an artificer in his original and in his supplemental declaration, ten months in that grade. His statement is discredited by the rolls, his name not being found there. In order to sustain that part of the claim two witnesses are required. The papers are placed on file" - I presume Mr Drake is unable to make at this late period any further proof except, I believe one of his witnesses General Belknap of New- burgh yet living may perhaps be a little more explicit in some particulars - He furnished the Department with the affidavits of General Belknap & Richard Alvenson of Newburgh as to his services as an artificer - The latter is dead - There is something a little indefinite (at least so it appears to me) as to the proof required

To be more explicit I wish to know if the affidavits of Belknap & Alkerson are not sufficient for the 3 months service as an artificer. If so then Mr Doche concurs to let it be definitively passed upon as it now stands, with the understanding that the 5 months service sworn to by Thomas Oliver and perhaps some portion of the other terms of service are sufficiently supported - If however none of the services as an artificer can be allowed on the present proof Mr Doche wishes to know wherein the proof of these two men is insufficient or defective particularly as to the 3 months of the service - I am at a loss to know from Mr Edwands letter whether he insists upon further proof for all of the 10 months service as an artificer or only the 7 months covered by the supplemental declaration - If the latter only, then he is willing to let it be passed upon as it is. But if the former then he wishes to make trial for proof of some one or two individuals living a very great distance off which may cast much trouble & expense - As you must be personally acquainted with the witnesses who have given their affidavits probably your own representations as to their standing & credibility may be of use & properly so as I should conceive -
I do not learn explicitly what portion of the service claimed (exclusive of the 10 months) is considered by the department as supported but from the nature of Mr Edwands letter on

all the services except the 16 months I should presume all but the 10 th months is allowed - But perhaps I am mistaken & would wish to know, that Mr Dohme may the better make up his mind whether to try for further proof or not on any part of these services as well as the other - As Mr Dohme is better acquainted with you particularly by reputation than Mr S. our own member, he has requested me to ask your attention to it which will be gratefully remembered by him as well as my- self - and wish as early reply as may be -
We have as yet heard little or nothing from your body after the delivery of the message The Nantucket calamity seems to have have completely interrupted our mails & papers - I remain
With much esteem
Yours &c
A Daimick
Hon. J. W. Brown -

Jan 21 st .
Mr Richard Drake host Room
6 Avaras Esq u Pension Office Washington
W. Brown

Mourn of Representatives Jan 20. 1835
Dr. John
Will You examine the enclosed papers and advise me of the result as early as possible.
I am Very respectfully Yours &c &c
John Brown of New York
J L Edwards Esq

John A. Roos Richard Drake
Ans d July 19 th 34
J. L. Edwards Esq r Commons of Penruddock Wesington City (S. G.)
Rev
July 5.
Bloomingburgh July 9
1834/4

Bloomingburgh July 9
183 3/4
July 5
City
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City (D.C.)
Am d July 19 th 34
John Brown Richard Brown

Bloomingburgh Sullivan Co. N.Y. June 30 th 1834
Dear Sir
At the request of John A. Rooser an applicant for a pension, residing in Mamakating, County of Sullivan State of N. York I wish to be informed what is the state of his application before you & wish you to communicate directly with me as his agent in future on the subject. Obadiah Beatty has been his agent, but by the subjoined you will see his authority for me so to act in future - I also wish to be informed if the pension papers of Michael Drake of the same town are in your office or not. They were returned last fall for further proof & at one time he ordered them returned as the proof as it then stood. But whether sent or not my memory does not serve me to say. But as they are not to be found in my office I presumed they were sent - Drake has now procured further proof and wishes to avail himself of it - An answer is requested as early as your business will permit - I remain your Obedt Servt J. L. Edwards Esq. At Dinneick Commr of Pensions etc
I John A Rooser of Mamakating, County of Sullivan, N. York do hereby substitute Stephen Dinneick my agent in the place of Obadiah Beatty, to act for me in procuring a pension for my services in the Revolutionary war. Given under my hand this 30 th June
1834 Signed in presence of Jacob Baker
John A Rooser

Two affidavits for Richard Drake Pension Applicant
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Hn. J. H. Brown HR

State of New York
Orange County ss. Isaac Belknap of the town of Newburgh in the County of Orange aforesaid being duly sworn before me Benjamin H. Mace one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, doth depose and say, that he became acquainted with Richard Drake of Mamaroneck Sullivan County, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six who was at that time an apprentice to William Lawrence a Blacksmith in the town of Newburgh in the County aforesaid.
And this deponent further saith that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine as near as he can recollect, the said Richard Drake served in the army of the Revolution as a Blacksmith in a company of Artificers commanded by Captain Jacob Neder in the town of Newburgh aforesaid. And this deponent further saith that he verily believes that the said Richard Drake served in said Company for the term of ten months but the lapse of years has so far obliterated his recollection that he can not with certainty state the precise term he served. And further this deponent saith not.
Sworn to & subscribed
Isaac Belknap
this 3 rd day of October 1834
before me J. H. Mace
Justice of the Peace in & for Orange County
State of New York
Orange County ss. I do hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Isaac Belknap who is described in & who has signed the above affidavit for the last fifteen years, and that he is a credible witness & entitled to the fullest confidence as such. Dated Newburgh Oct. 3 rd 1834 - J. H. Mace Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Onondaga County } ss.
I Asa D. Dunning clerk of the said County do hereby that Benjamin A. Mann Esq before whom the within affidavit was sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and truly believe his name subscribed to the the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing & Signature —
Witness my hand and Seal of office this 30 th day of October 1854 Asa D. Dunning

State of New York
Orange County ss. Richard Albertson of the town of Newburgh in the County of Orange aforesaid being duly sworn before me Benjamin H. Mace one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, doth depose and say that he became acquainted with Richard Drake of Mamakating Sullivan County in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six who was at that time an apprentice to William Laurence a Blacksmith in the town of Newburgh in the County aforesaid.
And this deponent further saith that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine the said Richard Drake served in the army of the Revolution as a Blacksmith in a company of Artificers commanded by Captain Jacob Reuder in the town of Newburgh aforesaid. And this deponent further saith that he surely believes that that the said Richard Drake served in said company for the term of ten months, he having entered the same on the first day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, and having left the same, as near as this deponent can recollect, about the middle of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. And further this deponent saith not.
Sworn to & Subscribed this 3 d day of October 1834
Richard his X Albertson mark
before me - The words that  verily believes that that erased before signing.
J. H. Mace Justice of the Peace in & for Orange County
State of New York
Orange County ss. I do hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Richard Albertson, who is described in and who has signed the above affidavit, for the last Twelve years and that he is a credible witness and entitled to the fullest confidence as such -
Dated Newburgh Oct. 1834.
J. H. Mace
Justice of the Peace in & for Orange County

State of New York } Onondaga County } p - I Asa Dunning Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Benjamin H. Mabee Esq. before whom the within Affidavit was sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted with his hand- writing and justly believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his own handwriting & signature With my hand and seal of office this 30th day of October 1834 Asa Dunning

We William Lockwood and Mahan W. Horton both of Mamakating in the County of Sullivan and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Richard Drake who has sub- scribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age and said William Lockwood further certifies that for many years past he has had interviews & conversations with said Drake relative to their respective services in the revolutionary war and that from his said Drake's apparent acquaintance & knowledge of many persons & officers & many incidents related by him connected with said war within my knowledge as well as other reputation of his service, I believe said Drake did serve as he has above declared; and said Mahan W. Horton certifies that said Drake is a man of good character & believes him to be a man of truth & veracity - and that he did serve as he has above declared -
Sworn & subscribed before me } this 9 th day of October 1832 } Asa M. Foster Clerk } of the Court of Com. Pleas }
William Lockwood Mahan W. Horton
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states: and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Lockwood who has signed the preceding certificate is a respectable Farmer of Mamakating in Sullivan County and

and Maher W. Horton are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit -
Sullivan County ss I Jesse M. Foster Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County & State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original papers & proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Richard Drake for a pen- sion and that sundry enclosures & interlineations appear therein. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 22 nd day of October A.D. 1832 - Jesse M. Foster
Richard Drake
Richard Drake
Cohen
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State of New York Sullivan County / Thomas Oliver of Orange County in said state being duly sworn faith that on the twentieth of June 1776 he left his home in Ulster County (now Or- ange County) in said state to march to New York as a soldier in a Company comman- ded by William Faulkner to serve five months & ten days and that he continued to serve as such soldier in said company until the last day of November then next. That he now knows Richard Drake of Mamakating in the County of Sullivan in said state who appears to be about seventy three years old as he believes and further deponent says that during his said service he was acquainted with said Drake who served in the same regiment with this deponent, in a Company commanded by Captain John Gillespie and deponent believes said Drake served the term of five months & ten days That deponent knew Jacob Lawrence as Lieutenant William Hall as Sergeant & James Stitt & Jacob Prosser all belonging to & serving in said Com- pany under said Gillespie - Thomas Oliver
Sullivan County / I certify that on the sixth day of October A.D. 1832 before me Samuel Smith one of the judges of said County in the State of New- York personally appeared the above named Thomas Oliver to me for many years personally known & made oath to the foregoing affidavit & the matters therein contained & subscribed the same and that he is a competent & credible witness - Samuel Smith Judge

Sullivan County E of I Jesse M Foster, clerk of the said County of Sullivan and clerk of the court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Samuel Smith Esq. before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in for said County - and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe his signature to the said affidavit is genuine. Witness my hand and seal of Office this 18 th day of October A.D. 1822 -
Jesse M Foster . Clerk
Original Drafted for Patent
Alt 10228
To the Comt. of
State of New York Sullivan County ss Personally ap-

State of New York Sullivan County ss Personally ap- peared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for said County, Richard Drake who being duly sworn deponeth and saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service (more fully than he has done) but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades. For four months I served as a private in the latter part of the year 1775. For one month as a private under Wm Alberson in March & April of 1776. For five months & ten days I served as a private commencing in June 1776 under Col Haseldenbergh - For ten days I served as a private under Samuel Clark Capt. in April 1777 - For one month & a half I served as a private under Capt Samuel Clark in Col. Hasbrooks regiment in the summer of 1777. For three weeks or at least 20 days I served as a private in Sept. 1777 as one of a guard for transporting bread up Hudson river for the use of General Gates Army - For one month I served as a private under Capt Scrymgeour from the fore part of November of 1777. For two weeks I served as a private at West Point to guard same from last of March or first of April 1778 - For one month I served as a private under Capt. Johnson & Col Hasbrooks commencing about first of June 1778 - For fifteen days I served as a private in October 1778. For fifteen days I served as a private in May 1780 under Capt Johnson. For ten months I served as an artificer at the blacksmithing business at Newburgh commencing the first of May 1779 And this deponent and applicant further saith that during his four months service at New Windsor he recollects one Capt. Logan commanded a company of minute men at the same place and that James Jackson was first Lieutenant. John Moffet second

Lieutenant & John Roberson Ensign of said Logans Company and Isaac Nichols was com- Colonel according to best of Recollection - That while at New York & White Plains in the year 1776 doing duty for the term of five months and ten days he recollects General Heath or Heth from Massachusetts had com- mand of the Division (so called), in which this deponent then served - and recollects seeing him there frequently - In the year 1777 James Clinton was commander of the New York troops and deponent was personally acquainted with him - That he saw on several occasions General Washington & Genl Putnam during the war and while acting as adjutant he had Genl Washingtons house at Newburgh his head quarters at that time being at New Windsor on Hudson river -
And this deponent & Applicant further saith that he is not acquainted with any clergy- men who can testify from his own knowl- edge nor from reputation (as he believes) of Applicants service during the revolutionary war - That the two Clergymen of the Village near to which he lives are young men who have recently come into the neigh- borhood of his residence but as he believes have not had opportunity to learn his repu- tation as a soldier of the revolution -
Subscribed & sworn this
21 st day of July 1833 -
Grant, V d Marin Justice of the Peace
Richard Drake

We Samuel Smith of the town of Mamakating County of Sullivan & State of New York and John M. Stitt of Wallkill County of Orange & State aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Richard Drake of Mam- akating aforesaid who has subscribed & sworn to the deposition & to the Declaration hereto annexed; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn before me this 22 nd
day of July 1833 -
Grant B. Mann
Justice of the Peace
Samuel Smith John M. Stitt
I certify that Samuel Smith & John M. Stitt, who subscribed & made oath to the foregoing certificate have been long well known to me, that said Smith is a respectable farmer, and for many years has been, and now is one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Sullivan, and that the said John M. Stitt is a respectable and able farmer of Orange County, and that both are credible persons, and that their state- ment is entitled to full credit & belief
Grant B. Mann Justice of the Peace
Sullivan County Clerk's office ss: I Jesse M. Foster Clerk of the County of Sullivan do hereby certify that Frank B. Mann before whom the preceding affidavits of Samuel Smith & John M. Stitt & also the affidavit of Richard Drake on the preceding page purports to have been taken, was at the date of said affidavits a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & sworn

That I am acquainted with his signature, & believe those subscribed to the Certificates of said affidavits to be his genuine signatures. Witness my hand & the seal of said County this 28 th day of September 1833
John M. Foster Clerk

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by Ad. T. May 31, 1910
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Richard Drake
Service N Y Rev.
Additional Service _____
No _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No own. Mil or Ry other than own. in 29127
CONGRESSIONAL

S. A. RODDENBERRY 2D DIST. GEORGIA
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON
May 28/10 -
Hon. Com. of Pensions -
Mr Sir -
Just as I find letter from Judge. A. G. Parrish. of Ga and one from The Adjt. Genl. On subject of Revolutionary Soldiers Records -
Please advise me on the subject & return the enclosure with your favor.
With Resp S. A. Roddenberry
Copy -

Patton, California
November 15, 1923
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly give me what information your records may contain concerning one Thomas Gillen who is said to have served in the Revolutionary War as a private in the Commander-in-Chief's Guard, Continental Troops, and who was credited to Maryland; Richard Drake who is said to have enlisted on September, 1775, at Blooming Grove, Orange Co., N.Y.; also David Woodruff who belonged to a New York regiment.
I am seeking positive information concerning these men to use in making up my application for membership in the D. A. R.
Yours truly,
Myrtle N Pond (Mrs. S. B. Pond)

June 2, 1910.
Hon. S. A. Roddenbery, House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Roddenbery:
In reply to your letter dated the 28 th and received the 31 st ultimo, and the enclosed letter of Judge Arthur G. Powell of Atlanta, Georgia, I have the honor to advise you that in the claim of Richard Drake, Sur. File No. 29,127, Revolutionary War, it appears that the soldier was born at Goshen, Orange County, New York, June, 1759, enlisted at Bloomingrove in said County and State, September, 1775 and served under the following officers, Captains Thomas Moffet, William Alberson, John Gillesspie, Samuel Clark, Terpenny, Johnson and Jacob Reeder; Colonels Hardenburgh and Hasbrook. He was allowed pension for eight months service, on an application executed October 9, 1832 while a resident of Mamakating, Sullivan County, New York. He died February 3, 1836.
In 1854 Thomas Drake of Steuben County, New York, stated that he was one of the children of Richard Drake. Other names not mentioned.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Richard Drake Ser. File 29127
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Sept. 1775- 4 mos. Thomas Moffet N.Y.   March 1776 1 mo. William Alperson   June 1776 5 mos. 10 days John Gillespie Hardenburgh   Apr. 1777 10 days Samuel Clark Hasbrouck   June & July 1777 1 1/2 mo. Samuel Clark   Sept. 1777 3 weeks guarding a small craft on North River   Oct. 1 1777 1 mo. Serpney   March or Apr. 1778 3 weeks as a guard at West Point Hasbrouck   June & July 1778 1 mo. Johnson   Oct. 1778 1 1/2 mo. against Indians at Peapack   May 1, 1779 March 1, 1780 Jacob Reeder as an artificer   May 1780 1 1/2 mo. Johnson  
Battles engaged in, Retreat from L.I.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, In at Blooming Grove, Orange Co. N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 9, 1832 His city was al.
Residence at date of application, Hanakating, Sullivan Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, born at Goshen, Orange Co. N.Y. June 1759, died July 2, 1836 *
Remarks: In 1854 Thomas Drake of Steuben Co. N.Y. states that he is one of the children of Richard Drake, no other names stated.
* from agency book